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The Sedlec Ossuary

A macabre spectacle can be found in an imposing chapel of a church in Eastern Europe clothes.
Cruces Catholic, Archangels and images religious gloomily combine with human bones in an unusual decorated in the so-called Sedlec Ossuary, located under the Church of the C ementerio of All Saints in the suburb of Sedlec in the Czech Republic.
The ossuary contains approxi body 40 mi l human skeletons, which were artistically arranged to form the decoration and furnishing of the chapel.
The story The place became a cemetery in demand after the fourteenth century.
Legend has it that the abbot of Monast erio Cistercian Order r Sedlec, was sent to the Holy Land by King Ottokar II Bohemia in 1278. On his return he brought with him a small amount of land he had picked the place Don of Jesus Christ was crucified.
That portion of land was sprayed in the cemetery of the abbey, so that pantheon fame grew. Since then, everybody want to be buried in Sedlec it was believed that the soul of rest in this cemetery, would be in heaven one day.
However, during the Black Death plague of the mid-fourteenth century, d fter war call Hussites to early fifteenth century, claimed thousands of lives, and most of the bodies were buried there, so that the cemetery had to be expanded considerably.
burial place was left both the Czech and Polish people, Bavaria and Belgium.
was around the year 1400 q ue was built in center of the cemetery a Gothic church, with a vault at a higher level and a chapel in the basement.
that cellar was built in an ossuary for the remains that were unearthed during the building of the church.
For many years the church and chapel in the basement was remodeled and expanded.
In the nineteenth century, the works were the responsibility of the Schwarzenberg family, but given the amount of human bones were piling up bodies after digging up the works, was hired in 1870 to Frantisek Rint, a woodcarver, to put the piles of bones in order.
The study results were grim.
Among the works of Rint highlight a giant chandelier which contains at least one piece of every bone in cu Erpo human. The lamp hangs from the center of the nave with garlands of skulls covering the vaults.
Other works include custodians flanking the altar, a large coat of arms of the Schwarzenberg, and the teacher's signature Rint, also made of bone and located on the wall near the entrance.
In 1970, the hundredth birthday of the work of Rint, Czech film director Jan Svankm Aher made a documentary of the ossuary.
Until recently celebrated Masses on All what s Santos, during which reigned a intimate atmosphere. Many residents you have buried their relatives in the local cemetery.
But the final Mass ended badly. Although it was agreed that there would be no pictures, it was not. The next day appeared in the newspaper pictures of the priest saying Mass with skulls and crossbones in the background, with dark headlines that it was a satanic mass. Therefore, the pastor decided to cancel the Mass in the chapel of the ossuary.

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